Environment

Does Bernie Sanders $16 Trillion Green New Deal Pay For Itself?

As young children worldwide protest over climate change, I thought I'd do a post about Bernie Sanders' Green Climate Change plan. (click to watch on Youtube) Bernie Sanders' idea is one of many ideas but one of the ones that promises the mo ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 22 2019 - 6:43pm

No Conker Tree Is NOT Really At Risk Of Extinction- Is About Native Original Distribution In Greece, Albania And Macedonia

This is another scary headline that doesn’t mean what it seems to mean from the titles. We do not risk a world without the conker tree and there is no way it can go extinct. After all it is easy to cultivate. Here is an example story to debunk: 'Alar ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 27 2019 - 2:25pm

Twitter Panic Over 5 Square Meters Of Bubbling Methane- Natural Arctic Methane Increase Is Comparable To Human Emissions

We often get scary stories saying that Arctic methane emissions are increasing. Recently many are panicking about a story in NewsWeek which has been widely retweeted. When you drill down to the details is about a tiny patch of Arctic methane bubbles in th ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 10 2019 - 1:03am

No We Do Not Risk Birds Vanishing From The US Skies- And Have We Really Lost 3 Billion Birds Since 1970?

This is another study that has hit the news, this time scaring people with the idea that the whole of the US may lose all its birds rapidly in the near future. Short summary- studies like this are hard to do and the 3 billion figure should be treated caut ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 11 2019 - 8:51pm

This Is How You Save A Million Threatened Species- And Make Biodiversity Great Again- The Solutions In The UN IPBES Report

You have probably seen the headlines “One million species threatened with extinction and humans to blame” and such like. But did you know, the UN study that lead to those headlines analysed the reasons we continue to lose species to extinction, and found ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 14 2019 - 8:36am

Sunlight Breaks Down Styrofoam 30X Faster Than Microbes

Polystyrene, one of the world's most common plastics (one popular product is Styrofoam), degrades in decades when exposed to sunlight, rather than thousands of years as previously claimed.  Polystyrene has been routinely detected in the world's o ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2019 - 1:30pm

Six Reasons Organic Is NOT The Most Environmentally Friendly Way To Farm

Contrary to widespread consumer belief, organic farming is  not  the best way to farm from an environmental point if view. The guiding principal of organic is to rely exclusively on natural inputs.  That was decided early in the 20th century, decades befor ...

Article - Steve Savage - Oct 22 2019 - 3:13pm

Shift To Organic Farming Would Cause Food Yields To Plummet 40% And Carbon Cost To Rise Up To 170%

A new study finds that if the United Kingdom did as The Guardian routinely advocates and abandoned modern agricultural science, people would starve. Or diets would change to where the rich had a variety while the poor suffered on subsistence fare. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2019 - 3:47pm

Half Of The World's Non-Ice Land Is Wilderness

It's a surprise for Americans to learn that the U.S. has more open land than the entire continent of Africa, even though Africa is 3X the size of the U.S., and it is an even bigger surprise when people learn that, of all the area not covered by ice, h ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2019 - 8:46am

Debunked: Myth Of Green Growth- Financial Times- Annotated

Here I debunk an article in the Financial Times- although by the title it is supposedly about myths about green technology and renewables, it actually perfectly highlights most of the scientific and even financial myths about renewables propagated by some ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 26 2019 - 11:53pm